Re: still want Seen articles split...

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

> On Tue, 7 Jan 2014 17:55:19 +0000 Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> wrote: 
>
> ESF> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
> ESF> [...]
>
>>> I can't really take it out of there, because IIUC that will resplit all
>>> the messages in INBOX every single time I sync, which would be bad. 
>
> ESF> This would only be bad if splitting leaves messages in INBOX.  My
> ESF> solution to this problem was to ensure that all emails are moved to
> ESF> other folders when splitting, leaving INBOX empty each time.  For those
> ESF> emails that you would normally have left in INBOX, create a "general"
> ESF> folder and move them there.
>
> ESF> Alternatively, do the splitting on the server instead of in gnus.
>
> ESF> Both approaches can work -- I've done both and, in fact, currently use a
> ESF> combination of the two.  On the server, I split those emails I would
> ESF> seldom, if ever, want to look at on a mobile device.  Gnus splits all
> ESF> others, seen or not.
>
> I keep everything from one account in a single INBOX to keep it
> manageable with other tools, but another account is always split into
> folders.  Both approaches make sense in context.
>
> I can't think of a good general solution, sorry.  A gnus-seen flag would
> help but not in every situation.

Fair enough. Both approaches do make sense, and generally speaking
server-side splitting seems far the most reasonable thing to do. I only
wish Gmail supported bulk import of filters -- I'm pretty wedded to my
BBDB-based splitting.

Thanks,
Eric